Not to mention that the Kaiser Wilhelm II was Queen Victoria's grandson. Basically all the Euro monarchs are related.Yeah, we were. There existed written plans from both the british and the germans to establish armybases in both Norway, Sweden and Denmark though. It was an important period in our domestic politics though. The swedish king was a relative of the german emperor so wanted to ally with the germans. The parlament would have none of it and the outcome was that the parlament stripped the king of the last remnant of power he had. So WW1 is the last time a swedish king tried to play a major political role.